I am about to prepare a small development cluster in the cloud and I am researching if I can manage it (with some automatisation scripts) to shutdown the cluster over night for cutting some costs in the cloud.

Thanks for the fast feedback. You tell me that this can be done without any big issues.

Could you maybe point me and answer some questions:

1. Can I write a scripte with a Cron JOB that can simulate something like this: for x in `cd /etc/init.d ; ls hadoop-*` ; do sudo service $x stop ; done and then start the same (let us say stop after 17:00 and start at 06:00) but without any errors in starting. I also need to shutdown the physical hosts and start them (virtual machines)

2. Where I see the issues is with the Kudu Tablet Master/Slave Servers. At least one needs to be running to preserve the data and I am interrested how long does the KUDU Filesystem check needs to run after HOST shutdown.

3. Are there any Github Code examples or guideliness to pursue these actions?